A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Buildings: A Reader's Guide
Buildings are treasure houses of stories – even if they are not built on books as the British Library is. The author in his attempt to apply journalism to architecture finds his writing tending towards the people behind the building, in them and around them, the traces of ideas and the words made flesh. It seemed the only way to capture the wider idea of the architectural project. The British Library is a large chunk of land; but as a text, it is one that readers – users, critics, librarians, tourists – still have to define for themselves. For the British Library to become more than a beautiful research den for the literary and academic, its story has to be turned around. The creative process and the experience of the building have to be brought to the fore. It is interesting to look at the influences and trace different architectural ideas – words and buildings – in this essay. The British Library can be read and reread in the light of the vocabularies of each of those ideas, and parallels can be drawn.
Buildings: A Reader's Guide
Buildings are treasure houses of stories – even if they are not built on books as the British Library is. The author in his attempt to apply journalism to architecture finds his writing tending towards the people behind the building, in them and around them, the traces of ideas and the words made flesh. It seemed the only way to capture the wider idea of the architectural project. The British Library is a large chunk of land; but as a text, it is one that readers – users, critics, librarians, tourists – still have to define for themselves. For the British Library to become more than a beautiful research den for the literary and academic, its story has to be turned around. The creative process and the experience of the building have to be brought to the fore. It is interesting to look at the influences and trace different architectural ideas – words and buildings – in this essay. The British Library can be read and reread in the light of the vocabularies of each of those ideas, and parallels can be drawn.
Buildings: A Reader's Guide
Borden, Iain (editor) / Fraser, Murray (editor) / Penner, Barbara (editor) / Young, Eleanor (author)
2015-03-24
6 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
20th century architecture: a reader's guide
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